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In case you are wondering what took so long, the fact is I never found an existing online pole system that quite met the requirements. So I implemented my own.
If anyone is worried about the possible biases involved with an entrant running the voting system, worry no more.I'm not competing for the prize, but I'm curious to see if anyone liked my game (or at least which parts were hated the least ), so I'm leaving it in the voting. Since voting for multiple games is allowed, this shouldn't affect the results.

Good enough games for BGMC 20...congratulations to all! This system of vote is excellent-Great job gandalf3! @adriansnetlis why would anyone vote twice?....we all do for fun and not for profit and still should watch the ip address?....you don't want too after him? ....LOL...You just don't win

Good enough games for BGMC 20...congratulations to all! This system of vote is excellent-Great job gandalf3! @adriansnetlis why would anyone vote twice?....we all do for fun and not for profit and still should watch the ip address?....you don't want too after him? ....LOL...You just don't win

I am just caring of security I don't want anyone to vote twice(even if he does all 5-star for my game). I want it to be fair. However, I am sure that this community is fair

I assume we shouldn't vote for our own games?
I didn't but I don't see it mentioned explicitly anywhere so I guess someone could if they got confused...

Great job to all that took part. It was really fun and as usual I really enjoyed making a complete game.

Well, there's nothing stopping you. And if everyone 5-stars their own game, nothing really changes :P
As a matter of fact, if everyone votes for themselves, then no-one can gain an advantage by doing the same (not that I think anyone here would do that ).

Let me put it this way: I won't vote for mine if you don't vote for yours

It's actually nice that I can download pack without my game
Oh, by the way, the rating system is great. Do you check the IP to tell if somebody has voted twice?

Yikes, 200MB! Ah well, I guess no one downloading the pack on a slow internet connection will mind much more than they mind the current 300MB..
Still, I don't suppose there's any way you could get the size down a bit? (I see 50MB worth of what looks like old .blend/.blend1 files)

There is some duplicate checking, but it's easily circumnavigated if one wants to. It's really more there to prevent accidental duplicate votes than anything

Yikes, 200MB! Ah well, I guess no one downloading the pack on a slow internet connection will mind much more than they mind the current 300MB..
Still, I don't suppose there's any way you could get the size down a bit? (I see 50MB worth of what looks like old .blend/.blend1 files)

There is some duplicate checking, but it's easily circumnavigated if one wants to. It's really more there to prevent accidental duplicate votes than anything

I also updated Arctic Drones with all the textures packed properly. the version in the all games pack works fine, but the "you win" and "you lose" screens don't look very good pink. The level 7 mission prompt is also pink, but everything else should be there.

From what I can see the this result isn't based on the average score, but rather the numbers of stars. This would be fine if it weren't the case that the game with the fewest ratings had 12 and the one with the most had 22, the results of that would be that if both had the average score of 3 the one with 12 rates would get 36 stars while the other one would get 66 stars. Right now the results is almost directly connected to numbers of rating with F-escape as the exception. I find this unfair and think the average score is a much fairer way of judge.

By judging the games by it averages score the result would be follow:1. Clashed with an average of 3.302. Someone like Me with an average of 3.298
3. Birds of a Feather with an average of 3.281
4. BeeSpeed with an average of 3.27
5. Arctic Drones with an average of 3.2486. My Feathered Familiar with an average of 3.23
7. Air Superiority with an average of 3.14
8. F-escape with an average of 3,08

The full calculation can be viewed below. The final results is made by dividing the total score with the numbers of categories, in this case Total score/7.

I'm not sure why some games got more ratings than others. I voted for all the games (except mine) but I guess that people who didn't take part but voted did so only for the games they played. If they didn't play a game there must have been a reason, like they couldn't get it to work or the game was a late entry.

BTW I enjoyed all the entries. Arctic drones was my favorite since it was a lot of fun and it was interesting to follow the development throughout in the WIP thread. I also didn't have to make any changes to get it to work on my PC.

In any case, congratulations to everyone! It was a great competition and a really interesting theme.

Thanks for the feedback
One thing to consider is that the number ratings can itself be an indicator of a game's popularity.
If people vote for their favorite games, it doesn't make sense to me to compensate for that when that's the very thing we want to measure.

The way I presented the voting as "rating" may be to blame, as I guess "rating" almost implies a potential for a negative vote, i.e. 1 star is worse than no star. But to be clear, I imagined these as "votes" from start to finish (no vote is worse than any vote).

That said, what's over is done. The results for this contest are final, but perhaps the voting system can be rethought and more clearly defined for the next BGMC. That, however, is now up to Smoking_mirror

To me it doesn't make sense that a game with an lower average score wins over multiply with higher because it had more judges. That's like Hannah Montana - The Movie would would surpass 2001 - A Space Odessey because it got more reviews and doesn't measure what score the review gave.